Tech Trends

It’s been a learning experience - something to chalk up technical shortcomings as I work as technical lead with a team covering the political caucus in Iowa.
We have one PC Laptop and one Mac. The PC power cord broke and left us with the Mac to depend on.
This was a bit of a challenge as […]

This is kind of an interesting webpage I just created.
It queries Google Video then resyndicates the top 20 search results.

Amazon released a new video downloading service today. Apple computers has a secret announcement tomorrow. The top secret announcement will be an offering of a new video service. (Shhhhhh!) Amazon beat them to the punch making the service unavailable to Apple users, adding a lap in the face. By the way, has it ever occured […]

Video is hot. National attention from mainstream media has pumped up the dialogue and traffic to a number of services that utilize user generated video hosting products. Over the last few days I uploaded a video to Yahoo, Google and You Tube to compare the services.

Best Feature: UserBase, most views after uploading.
Branson Fiddle Contest JR’s […]

Reuters, a leader in news publishing has always been an early adapter in digital news publishing renting booths at tech trade shows pre Drudge Report.
Reuters Video News has now come out of beta and is available through Brightcove.
Advantage - The Reuters news service is available free after a verification process
Disadvantage - The Video player is […]

Yahoo added new functionality to it’s recently purchased photo service Flickr (Perhaps not so recent in Internet Time). The new feature in the photo management and blogging product enables users to Geocode photos with an easy to use graphical interface. Utilizing the Yahoo Maps and Yahoo Local interface Flickr users can find the location that […]